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Ikki needs to renegotiate his contract with Fenix so he can get one of those useful motorcycles.

#NiceVice though! He's saying exactly what Ikki needs to hear and getting to the point of the problem. Ikki is kind of a control freak with how much responsibility he gives to himself. If there's a problem, he wants to be the guy who fixes it, but the problem with that is, sometimes people need to fix their own problems. People need to feel validated and have a purpose in life, so Ikki inserting himself in Daiji's life has been spoiling and suffocating Daiji, making him feel useless. So I have to give credit to Vice for getting Ikki to confess his error and see Daiji and Kagerou more for what they are, rather than his own distorted image.

Three Brachio Deadmen merging in to one. Hmm, Zi-O Trinity reference?

Daiji's return and debut as Live was cool, seeing how he previously displayed his shooting skill with the Gundephone and that's also his preferred fighting style with his primary weapon being the aptly named Livegun (did George let Shinnosuke name these?). It's clever how they hinted at his skill before he officially became a Rider, makes his immediate mastery as Live more plausible.

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Originally Posted by Androzani84

First time watching an episode love this season. Should be exciting

It's a shame you typoed "live" cause that would've been a nice pun otherwise.

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Originally Posted by Matrixbeast

what's her name.

Aguilera!

With Kagerou getting forced out of action for a while, Aguilera's resuming her search for more stepchildren to revive Gif. Looks like Julio might have an unrequited crush on her, with how he wishes her a safe trip and gets ignored. But Aguilera has promised her heart to Gif, so curious to see if that escalates in to a love triangle.

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Originally Posted by Rei

Oh. Interesting, interesting. My bad. So, it seems unleashing a Demon via the Revice Driver and having it destroyed is a perma-loss.

Also, yay, the little spider is his demon now!

If devils feed on their hosts' hatred and jealousy, then I think maybe it's less of a perma-loss and more of a reset. Like Kagerou was just defeated, but if he gradually recovers his strength by continuing to feed on Daiji's moments of weakness, he might emerge once more.

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Originally Posted by DreadBringer

George seems to be thrilled over the appearence of Live, so he seems to appreciate some of the Kamen Rider virtues (other than being a fan of its aesthetics) to a degree, wanting to create a hero that is born from lots of drama and struggle.

Yeah, it's like he's trying to create his own Kamen Rider fanfic in real life, creating problems for the heroes to overcome and show their heroism. The Othello board is symbolic of this, with a player having more tiles giving the enemy more opportunity to flip them. A rather literal case of good and evil being two sides of the same coin.

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Though I personally think I do want for them to show what trait does Vice's ghostly body have, I feel like Vice going into Daiji/Kagerou's head is in line with Vice going to Kudo's (corrupt lawyer) storage to prove that he had a ViStamp, being supernatural means you're intangible and can accomplish tasks that involves something hidden due to him being able to phase through things, but due to that he can't protect Ikki even if he wanted too outside Revice, as seen in ep. 8 when Kagerou attacks Ikki. I think what really holds them back is Vice's self-centered personality instead of power limitation.

Vice was the MVP of their fight with Evil though, being the only one with the clear head, configuring the Revislasher and trying to calm Revi so he doesn't do anything dangerous. Revi wasn't even thinking about Vice, so they weren't in sync and Evil used that to his advantage. Since Vice is a manifestation of Ikki's hidden desires, it makes sense that there would be a selfish side to Ikki as well, like not believing in others and trying to solve everybody's problems instead of helping them solve their own, hence why he's called the ultimate busybody, similar to Kikuchi Keitarou.

Regarding Vice's incorporeal form, my biggest question is still how he's supposed to eat?

Anyway, Revice Brachio Genome debuted here and I think it's smart how the finisher had the clock effect flipping from 49 to 50. A square number followed by a round number. However, the Remix has yet to appear, so I won't mention the Machine parallel yet.